Decolonization - A Substancive Idea

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The same framework that allows underwater home owners in the us, or after two thousand eight, or the government of greece, to be pathologized as sinful and backward. And once again, we see the boomerang. What would a subsitive politics to decolonize britain and the world look like? A politics that connected the left behind regions of deindustrialized britain to the masses of jamaica,. rather than pinning them against one other?" i think that amno responding with a kind of substancive idea of decolonization," he says.

Featuring Kojo Koram on his brilliant book Uncommon Wealth: Britain and the Aftermath of Empire. How neoliberalism reorganized colonial capitalist plunder to survive the Third Worldist challenge, and then boomeranged back into the British metropole—a history obscured by rendering “decolonization” into a symbolic culture war battle. Check out How to Sell a Poison: The Rise, Fall, and Toxic Return of DDT by Elena Conis hachettebookgroup.com/titles/elena-conis/how-to-sell-a-poison/9781645036753/ Support The Dig at Patreon.com/TheDig